This study provides a first analysis of the recent development in infrastructure investment in the Western Balkans. It identifies infrastructure gaps as well as key infrastructure initiatives in the region, outlines the political dimension and provides the respective detailed infrastructure...

In dieser Studie argumentieren wir für einen "Big Push" bei den Infrastrukturinvestitionen im größeren Europa. Wir schlagen den Bau einer "Europäischen Seidenstraße" vor, welche die industriellen Zentren im Westen mit den bevölkerungsreichen, aber weniger entwickelten Gebieten im Osten des...

Disruption of tradition network industries and the emergence of innovative physical operator platforms provide challenging governance problems of contractual relationships among different actors involved. The problem solution competence of operator platforms (two-sided, multi-sided) is the...

The adequate availability of infrastructure and its related services, is mandatory condition for further development of the country's competitive advantages, intensifying the productive specialization. Due to limited financial capacity, in the course of the last three decades, there have been an...

Zu viele Autos, Staus in den Innenstädten, schlechte Luft, hohe Schadstoffemissionen: In vielen Städten und Kommunen droht ein Verkehrskollaps. Neue Verkehrskonzepte werden dringend benötigt. In einigen Städten werden unterschiedliche Ansätze verfolgt, um den privaten Autoverkehr in den...

Eine Elektrifizierung bzw. die Kopplung des Stromsektors mit dem Verkehrssektor spielt in allen Technologie­szenarien eine Schlüsselrolle in der Reduktion von THG-Emissionen. Viel Aufmerksamkeit ist hier der Elektrifizierung von Pkw zugekommen. Weniger im Fokus standen Schwer- und...

This paper is an annual publication issued by the Microeconomic Analysis service of the National Bank of Belgium. The Flemish maritime ports (Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend, Zeebrugge), the Autonomous Port of Liège and the port of Brussels play a major role in their respective regional economies and in...

In this paper we develop a framework for analyzing panel data with observations on rank ordered alternatives that allows for correlated random taste shifters across time and across alternatives. As a special case we obtain a nested logit model type for rank ordered alternatives. We have applied...

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...